Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver - Custom Fit - Class I - 1-1/4"

Video Transcript for Trailer Hitch Installation - 2015 Chevrolet Cruze - Curt

Today we're going to be reviewing and installing the Curt Class I Trailer Hitch Receiver, which is a 1-1/4-inch tube receiver, part number C11425, on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruze. This is what the hitch looks like once it's installed on our vehicle. You can see it's got a 1-1/4-inch receiver tube opening. It's got this nice reinforcement collar here. We've got the 1/2-inch hitch pinhole, the safety chain loops, and then back here nice and tucked away, we've got the crossframe for the hitch, and it bolts up to the factory holes that are in the frame. Now, it also has this nice powder coat finish. With this, it has a 200-pound tongue weight rating and a 2,000 gross trailer weight rating. When you're using non-trailer loads, such as bike racks or cargo carriers, Curt recommends that you use a support strap, part number 18050, which you can find on our site.

In order to get an idea what kind of distances you'll be looking at for any accessories you might have, the distance from the center of the hitch pinhole to the further back part of the bumper is about 4-3/4 inches, and the distance measured from the ground to the bottom of the receiver tube is 9 inches. Now, we'll show you how it's installed. First thing we want to go ahead and do once we've come under our vehicle is we're going to want to drop this exhaust to give ourselves a little bit more room to work. In order to do that, we're going to drop this whole hanger out of here. We're going to use a 13mm and take that bolt out. Once we have that bolt out, we can push it out a little bit because it's got this little hook here on the back side just to help secure it in place a little bit more.

Once we've got that out of the way, that gives us a little bit more room to work. We're going to take our rectangular flat washer with the square hole in the center, and take our carriage bolt and we'll put that through there. Grab one of our fish wires and you just want to spin that on there. We're going to take it and send it through this rear access hole. I'm going to send it all the way back to this rearward most hole on the subframe. Sometimes it takes a little twisting, but you can get it.

Then, what I want to do is take this washer, put it up the wire just a little bit from the bolt. That way you can feed them in separately, but then they'll both pull down into place just like you need them. I put a little bit more of a bend in the end of this one in order for it to come back down pretty quick through this other hole. Put in that washer just up a little bit further from the bolt and pull them down into place. I've already done the other side, so I'm going to leave these fish wires right here to help guide them through the holes on the hitch as we put it into place. You want to grab a second set of hands to put this hitch up. What we're going to start with doing is on the exhaust side is put the fish wires through the holes, and we'll feed this exhaust side up first, so we can get it over the exhaust and get the other side up.

Then, take these fish wires off and get the nuts started. Then, we can get ready to tighten them down before we torque them. Now, we'll take our 3/4-inch socket and tighten it down, get it pretty snug. Now, let's get both sides torqued down to what's specified in the instruction manual. We'll do that on both side. Now that we've got those bolts all torqued down, let's put our exhaust back into place. Now, remember we've got this little hook on the back side and there's a little opening right up here what that goes into. Once you've got that tight, you're done putting the hitch in. That's going to complete our look at the Curt Class I Trailer Hitch Receiver, part number C11425, on our 2015 Chevrolet Cruze.